Lev Topor

Dr. Lev Topor is a policy-oriented researcher and a private consultant in the fields of antisemitism and cyber policy. He teaches at the School of Information Systems at the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, Israel. He is a fellow at the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP). Lev is a former visiting ISGAP fellow at the Woolf Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom, a former Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Cyber Law and Policy (CCLP), University of Haifa, Israel, and a former Visiting Scholar at the International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem. Lev published numerous peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and reports on cyber policies, anonymous communications, racism, antisemitism, and anti-Zionism.

Lev has published three books; he co-authored a book published in 2021 by Oxford University Press (w/ Fox, Jonathan), titled 'Why Do People Discriminate against Jews?' Lev also published a book with Routledge titled 'Phishing for Nazis: Conspiracies, Anonymous Communications and White Supremacy Networks on the Dark Web'. In 2024, Springer published Lev’s latest book, titled 'Cyber Sovereignty: International Security, Mass Communication, and the Future of the Internet', which describes and predicts the future structure of the internet, the book is a part of the renowned Global Power Shift series.

Lev received his PhD from the Bar Ilan University, Israel (supervised by Prof. Jonathan Rynhold). His works have won several awards like the Honors Award from The Association of Civil-Military Studies in Israel (2020), the Presidential Prize from the President of Bar Ilan University, Israel (2019), the Robert Wistrich Award from the Vidal Sassoon Center for the Study of Antisemitism (2019) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.